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Medford
United Prese Full
' Thirty ninth Year
Carrier
INDUSTRY AREA
TARGET FOR DAY
Nagoya Still Blazing From
Greatest Superfort Attack
of War; Formosa Raided.
By United Press
American carrier planes rock
ed the Japanese homeland again
today, according to Tokyo, and
other U. S. aerial forces joined
a rapidly growing offensive
against the enemy's inner de
fense bases,
i Tokyo said waves of U. S.
" navy planes attacked the vital
Osaka-Kobe war industrial area
fpr at least nine hours today
and also hit Shikoku island and
Kyushu, southermost of the
home islands.
Kyushu Hit Hard
Kyushu was the main target
yesterday of a carrier force,
which Tokyo estimated at 1,400
planes.
Just east of the Osaka-Kobe
area, Japan's third largest city.
Nagoya, still was ablaze from a
pre-dawn attack early yesterday
by 325 to 350 Superfortresses,
the greatest B-29 armada of the
war.
' While the carrier planes were
again blasting the shattered Jap
anese home cities, American
Liberator bombers were reveal
ed to have raided Formosa, 700
; miles southwest of Kyushu, for
the fifth consecutive day.
No Opposition
'A record 300 tons of high ex
plosives were showered on the
island fortress, off the China
coast, in the latest attack Friday
and the Japanese failed to put
up a single interceptor.
. The Liberators, which drop
ped 825 tons of bombs on For
mosa in five days, flew from
bases in the Philippines, where
American troos continued to
comnress the Japanese. U. S
troops made another shore-to-short
amphibious operation
which sealed Calumpan penin-
aula in southwestern Luzon, and
made new gains in the fighting
east of Luzon. '
Mitchell medium bombers also
were active in attacks through
the South China sea and set
afire a destroyer and a destroyer
escort off Swatow on the China
opast.
. Japt Worried
" The onslaught against the Jap
anese echoed into their own cap
ital, where the government ad
mitted the war situation was
becoming more critical.
Tokyo broadcasts indicated
that the Japanese intend to draft
all school children from eight
vears old and uo for work in
factories and air defenses. The
clan was Implied in an an
nouncement that all Japanese
schols. excepting the first grade,
would be closed for a year be-
elnnig April 1.
The draft apparently was part
of a broad plan proposed by
Premier Kuniaki Koiso for re
constructing the Japanese gov
ernment so that It could "dove
tail with -the military strategy.'
STOCK ROUNDED UP ON
BEAGLE-ANTELOPE LAND
The (.herlff's office Sunday
rounded up 18 head of horses at
large on the Camp White reser
vation, and located all but three
of the owners of the animals
Demitv Sheriff William Gren-
bemer reports the land is leased
from the government py tne
Beagle-Antelope Stock associa
tion and other stock is not al
lowed to graze in the area. The
denutv sheriff says there has
been misapprehension of this
point, many assuming the land
was open to all.
German "Spit - and
When P-47 Pilots
Paris, March 19-4U.PJ Some
German spit-and-polish officer's
insistence on holding morning
inspection today resulted In an
estimated 150 dead and wound
ed German soldiers.
Capt. Thomas Hergcrt, Mil
waukee, Wis., was he Jcader of
a group of P-47 fighter plane
pilots who disrupted the pro
ceedings in the first tactical air
force attack on the Saar basin.
'I could hardly believe my
Leased Wire
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Leon's Executives
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LA
IN DEFIANCE OF
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Washington, March 19 U.R
Mayor F, H. LaGuardia of New
York appeared today to be going
it alone for the present in his
defiance of the government's
midnight curfew.
Mayors and officials of many
other cities said that they would
stick by the midnight closing.
This eased somewhat the fears
of officials that the defiance
would become epidemic, but
they still were much concerned
over the situation in the nation's
largest city.
On Own Authority
LaGuardia yesterday announc
ed that he had extended New
York's public drinking to 1 a
m. He acted on his own author
ity, without conculting Wash
ington. Reports from Detroit, Chi
cago, Philadelphia, Cleveland,
Kansas City, Si n Francisco, Bos
ton, Los Angeles, and Pittsburgh
said that these cities would stick
by the midnight closing edict as
long as federal authorities felt
it was necessary.
Chicago's Mayor Edward J.
Kelly summed it up:
"What New York does is not
my affair. The mdinight curfew
will remain unless otherwise or
dered from Washington."
The United Press learned that
LaGuardia acted without con
sultation or permission from
War Mobilization Director
James F. Byrnes. His order
brought no immediate action or
comment from Byrnes.
NAVY FLIER KILLED
Seattle, March 19 (U.R) The
13th naval district reported to
day that Ens. Paul E. Williams
of Marysville, Cal., was killed
Saturday afternoon when his
small type navy plane crashed
five miles south of the Astoria,
Ore., naval air station.
- Polish" Costly
Spot Formation
eyes," Hergert said. I came
over the trees and saw the Ger
mans lined up six abreast in
regular parade formation on the
road near Hofstatten.
"My first burst caught them
completely by surprise. The
bullets weren't kicking up the
dust so they must have been
hitting the Germans. I must
have got 75 on my first pass.
The Thunderbolts sprayed the
Germans until they were out of
ammunition. '
MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, MARCH 19, 1945
LADIES' APPAREL
STORE TO OPEN
E
With the opening tomorrow of
Leon's, 21 North Central ave
nue, Medford will have a new
shop for women which will re
flect the latest trends in design
and decorating detail and which
will compare favorably with the
most modern of the west coast
women's stores. From the arrest
ing black glars front, with oval
display windows, and the spec
ially made all-glass doors to the
multi-colored walls and ceilings
of the interior, the entire shop
has been planned to present the
most attractive background pos
sible for the display of merch
andise. . '- .
Main floor of the new store
will have a modern sportswear
'bar" of circular design, display
and storage space for accessories
and the shoe department, walls
and pillars of the interior, and
the background of windows and
display niches, are in pastel
green, peach, dusty pink and
blue shades and the woodwork
is beautiful blonde prima vera
mahogany. The stair and mezza
nine railing are inset with glass.
Special airplane type carpet
ing gives a luxurious floor cov
ering, these being in green
shades for the main floor and
office and in a fuchsia shade for
the mezzanine. Ready-to-wear
and millinery will be handled
on the mezzanine, with four fit
ting rooms decorated in varolus
shades. The second floor will
house alteration and stock
rooms.
A staff of eight local people
will be employed.
ine new store is sixth of a
chain operated In the Pacific
northwest by a firm made up of
Larry Balch, genera, manager.
ana u. t. rouiger, secretary
treasurer. Balch formerly was In
the shoe business in Missouri
and Utah and opened the first
store, a shoe establishment, in
Klamath Falls 12 years ago. The
second was In Salem, where
firm headquarters are maintain
ed and other stores are in As
toria, Vancouver and Longvlew
Mr. Balch states that for some
time he had desired to open a
store here and had waited until
a suitable location could be ob
tained. "We have spared no ex
pense," he said, "in giving Med
ford a first-class store." He, Mr.
Foulger and Parker Woods, who
wil' be local manager, empha
sized that medium and better
grade merchandise of recognized
national brands would be car
ried in the local store. Mr.
Woods comes here from the
Astoria shop and plans to bring
his wife and family here in the
near future.
The opening tomorrow has
been set for 9:30 and it was said
that everything is expected to
be in readiness with the excep
tion of a few fixtures which fail
ed to arrive.
Sgt. Noe of Ashland
Wounded in Europe
Master Sgt. Charles L. Noe,
Ashland, has been wounded in
the European war theater, ac
cording to the latest release of
the Office of War Information.
Next-of-kin Is Mrs. Mildred D.
Noe, 93 Bush street, Ashland.
EDUCATOR DIES
Santa Barbara, Cal., March
19 (U.PJ Dr. Caroline Hazard,
89, president of Wellesley col
lege from 1899 to 1910, died
here today. She had been ill
several months.
Japanese fomeland
NEW FOOD CUTS
SENATE1IY
All Phases of Production,
Distribution Due for Sur
veyOfficial Outlook Bad
Washington, March 19 (U.R)
The senate voted unanimously
today for a thorough Investiga
tion of the nation's increasingly
critical food situation.
L Taking cognizance of new cuts
in food quotas for civilians, the
chamber passed a resolution by
Sen. Kenneth S. Wherry, (R.,
rleb.) authorizing a senate agri
culture subcommittee to investi
gate all phases of the production
and distribution of food in the
United States.
Broad Authority
The subcommittee was grant
ed $5,000 for the inquiry and
given broad authority to inquire
into any phases of the situation
it desires.
The senate acted shortly after
a resolution providing for a simi
lar investigation by the house
agriculture committee was in
troduced In the lower chamber
by Rep. August H. Andresen (R
Minn.). .
Meanwhile, government offic
ials said the nation's food out
look can be described by one
word "bad."
Sayt F. R. Misinformed
Rep. William D. Lemke (R.
N. D.) charged that the president
had a rosy outlook on the food
situation because "he is being
misinformed" by Draft Director
Lewis B. Hershey. Lemke, who
Is pressing for a congressional
Investigation of the drafting of
young farmers, said Hershey and
other officials apparently think
that "men who don't know the
difference between a cow and a
mule can take care of a dairy
herd." ...
E
MILE DEEP INTO
ODER FORTRESS
London, March 19 (U.R)
Russian siege forces have driven
a wedge almost a mile into the
main defenses of Altdamm, fort
ress city on the east bank of
the Oder before Stettin, the Ger
mans reported today.
The soviet assault on the last
German toehold east of the low
er Oder at Altdamm entered its
final phase. Russian victory
there will secure Marshal Greg
ory K. Zhukov's flank for the
big push on Berlin.
Moscow dispatches reported
that after the capture of the big
port of Kolberg, 63 miles north
east of Stettin, the Baltic coast
was clear from Stettin bay to
the suburbs of beseiged Gdynia,
Soviet dispatches said fighting
went on unabated along the cen
tral Oder front before Berlin
and In Silesia, although the red
army command still withheld
confirmation of nazi reports that
the Russians were across the
Oder in force and gathering
strength for a frontal assault on
the capital.
AIRPLANE VEGETABLE
SHIPMENTS STARTED
Palm Springs, Cal., March 19.
(U.R) Palm Springs today be
gan once-a-week air line veget
able shipments to eastern mar
kets. The first consignment was
6,000 pounds of fresh asparagus
sent by American Air Lines to
Pittsburgh, Pa. The Imperial
Valley-grown asparagus will be
on sale In Pittsburgh tomorrow
morning.
No Ice Is needed to refrigerate
the aerial shipments. Low tem
peratures are maintained by fly
ing at high altitudes.
BRITISH WONDER WHAT
TO SERVE ON MEAT DISH
London, March 19 (U.R)
British housewives wondered to
day what they were going to use
to fill In the pending meat ration
cut which wil) leave them about
enough for one meat serving per
eprson each week.
Supplies of protein substitutes
of fish, eggs, and cheeses are al
most as scares as ueat.
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Swallc
turn
To Cai ;rano on
Springtime's Eve
San Juan Capistrano, Cal.,
(U.R) The swallows came back
to Mission San Juan Capistrano
today just as they've done for
longer than the memory of the
oldest padre.
Scores of watchers stood in
silence before the ancient walls
of the mission this morning,
looking into the blue sky.
I here was a whir of tiny
wings overhead. Then down the
swallows, came, dropping uner
ringly into the nests they'd
abandoned last year.
There were no sparrows to be
driven out this St. Joseph's Day
better known as Swallow Day
at tne mission.
FAILS AS SOLONS
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Salem, Ore., March 19 U.R)
Oregon's longest legislative ses
sion was history today. It ad
journed sine die Saturday night,
69 days after it opened.
The senate spent the last days
in parliamentary maneuvering,
as attempts to push through a
pension plan for firemen failed.
The house was in recess most
of the day. waiting for the sen
ate to get through. Speaker Eu
gene Marsh dropped the gavel
at 5:48 p. m. to the strains of
"Auld Lang Syne," cheers and
speeches by the members.
The senate followed a few
minutes later, as President How
ard Belton adjourned the upper
house at 6:04 p. m.
Governor's Mansion Out '
Last-mlnute' fiuslness included
a few more appropriation bills,
and the controversial bill pro
viding for the office of registrar
of elections in Multnomah coun
ty. This was the bill that caused
a two-day filibuster in the house
about a month ago.
The senate refused to give
passage to a house bill which
would have given the emergency
board and the board of control
power to build a governor's
mansion from state building
funds.
The senate put final approval
on a bill liberalizing tax exemp
tions for disabled veterans.
800 Bills In Hopper
A good many Important bills
were among the more-than-800
which dropped into the hopper
during the last two and a half
months. The legislature complet
ed action on many of them, with
major legislation affecting
schools, veterans, farming, taxes
injury and jobless compensation .
fish, liquor, salaries, civil serv
ice, pensions, motor vehicles and
forests.
YANKEE SUBS GET
15 JAP VESSELS
Washington, March 19. (U.R)
American submarines have
sunk 15 more Japanese ships, in
eluding five combat vessels, the
navy announced today.
The combat craft included
three destroyers and two escort
vessels.
The other victims were i
large tanker, one large cargo
transport, seven cargo vessels,
and one medium transport.
By United Press
Japanese . submarines operat
ing in waters west of the Philip
pines attacked American surface
craft Saturday sinking two large
transports, the Tokyo radio
claimed today.
Pope Pius Urges Forebearance In
Drafting Peace Generous To All
Vatican City, March 19 (U,R)
The three great leaders of the
world had before them today an
appeal by Pope Pius to show
forebearance and understanding
In forming a peace generous to
all peoples in the light of their
tragic war sufferings.
Never before have the suffer
ings of the peoples given them
a greater right to benevolent
consideration, the pontiff said in
a speech yesterday from the cen
tral balcony of St, Peter's Basilica.
Leased Wire
NO. 303.
TEST IN SENATE
Mexican Water Treaty Bill
Laid Aside to Take Up
Nomination of REA Head.
Washington, March 19 (U.R)
A coalition of senate republi
cans and southern .iemocrats to
day defeated administration
forces in the first senate test on
nomination of Aubrey Williams
to be rural electrifiu-ulon admin
istrator. The test came on a motion to
lay aside temporarily the pro
posed Mexican water treaty and
take up the Williams nomina
tion. The motion was approved
by a vote of 52 to 33.
The immediate consideration
of Williams' nomination was fa
vored generally by those seek
ing to defeat him.
Democratic Leader Alben W,
Barkeley, Ky., urged the sen
ate to continue with the water
treaty.
"I don't suppose Mr. Williams'
most ardent friend would take
the position that his nomination
is of more importance than the
tweaty," he said. "The senate
would put itself in a peculiarly
indefensible position if it side-
iracKB tne treaty to take up
anyDoay s nomination.
Sen. Robert A. Taft. R.. O..
pointing out that the senate
took time last week to pass
number of small claims bills
and other minor legislation, said
it was nis reeling "that the mat
ter is of minor Importance and
should be cleaned up before we
proceed to consideration of this
important treaty."
L BUS DRI
San Francisco. March IS (U.R)
Louis Jackson, 53-year-old Negro
parolee from San Quentin prison.
nas contessed the slaying of
Winifred Cecil, navy bus driver.
last Jan. 4, police reported to
day.
After almost 10 hours of grill
ing at the hall of justice, homi
cide detectives said. Jackson
broke down and admitted not
only the murder of Miss Cecil.
but also the shooting of Police
Sgt. William Albrecht here Sat
urday night and several other
crimes, including the rape of a
14-year-old girl.
Jackson was arrested in the
Peerless theater after, police
said, himself phoning Southern
station that the murderer of Miss
Cecil and the man who shot Sgt
Albrecht during a tavern holdup,
was there.
A squad of police raided the
theater, switching on lights and
halting the showing of the
movie. Jackson, who had been
questioned earlier about the
shooting of Sgt. Albrecht after
someone told the police he was
implicated, was seized and taken
to the hall of justice.
Captain of Inspectors Bernard
McDonald said Jackson also con
fessed to the rape of an army
wife, as well as an attack on a
45-year-old woman in a cleaning
establishment.
TAX CUTS SHUNTED
Sacramento, March 19 (U.R)
The assembly today defeated
a motion to bring tax reduction
bills favored for early passage
by Gov. Earl Warren to a vote
on Thursday.
An estimated 60,000 persons,
Including thousands of Ameri
can soldiers who jammed the
square, broke tradition repeated
ly to Interrupt the pope and
shout acclaim when he referred
to the coming peace.
The applause was long when
he implored all the people of the
world to pray to the "almighty,
who pardons all, so that he may
aid suffering humanity and put
an end to this horrible catastro
phe and bring about a just and
lasting peace,"
Confused Nazis Begin
Retreat From Pocket
As Yankees Close In
Paris, March 19. (U.R) The German first and seventh armies
began a general retreat from the Saar-Palatinate triangle today
under a rain of American air bombs and gunfire.
A gap of 40 miles or less remained open between the American
third and seventh armies, closing in around the confused Germans
from the north and south
GERMANS STREAM
Inside the pocket, long columns
were reported streaming eastward
and apparently disorderly - attempt
of the American pincers close,
American bombers attacked the packed roads at dawn. By
mid-day the U. S. ninth air force had sent more than 1,300 medium
Dombers and lighter-bombers against the fleeing Nazis and the
massed slaughter still was going on. Flying weather over tha
target area was perfect with indications that the number of sorties
would be doubled by nightfall.
SCENES LIKE INVASION Or FRANCE
Returning fliers said the highways were black with German
troops and civilians. The scenes
invasion of trance in 1840, the fliers said.
About 1,000 Nazi motor vehicles and 100 tanks or armored cars
were destroyed or damaged yesterday. Today's toll promised to
do greater.
Nutcracker Sweep
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American Third and Seventh Armlci
lash into northern and southern
flanks of the Saar Basin in powerful
nutcracker offensive threatening to
envelop elements of at least two uer
man field armies west of the Rhine.
The First Army lashes ahead east of
the Rhine
G.O.P. PUBLICITY MAN "
IS STRANGELY MISSING
Washington, March 19 (U.R)
Police today were investigating
the disappearance of Leland L.
Chesley, acting publicity direc
tor of the Republican National
committee, whose clothes were
found nine days ago on a bridge
across the Potomac.
A note in the clothing request
ed that the finder "please notify"
Mrs. Chesley. Police said the
case was turned over to the de
tective bureau because "it ap
peared the clothing was left to
mislead police."
No trace oC a body has been
found.
OF
BLAZE DAMAGED
Fire of- unknown origin de
stroyed the roof and otherwise
damaged the Church of God,
Haven and Oakdale streets,
shortly after noon today. Fire
Chief Roy Elliott stated that
the fire apparently started In a
small room In one corner of the
building and spread upward into
the attio and to the roof, and
that hampered by the wind, it
proved stubborn to the depart
ment men.
, Amount of the damage was
unknown.
Sunday morning firemen were
called to vie homo of the assist
ant chief, Ed. Canoose, corner
Ross court and Fourth streets.
v-hen a small roof fire spread
from the chimney. Damage was
slight, according to the report,
FBI GRILLS SUSPECT
IN REDHEAD SLAYING
St. Louis, Mt , March 19 (U.R)
Federal bureau of investiga
tion agents moved swiftly today
to tighten a web of evidence
around Joseph Dunbar Medley,
43, before removing him to
Washington, D. C, to face s
murder charge.
Medley, a suspect In the mys-
terous deaths of three red-hair
ed women in Washington, Chi
cag and New Orleans, was seiz
ed yesterday as he entered his
suite at the fashionable Jeffer
son hotel with another red-hair
ed woman companion,'
MOTHER WORRIES OVER
NAVY SON, KILLS SELF
Salem, Mass., March 19. (U.PJ
Worried for the safety of her
18-year-old navy son, Mrs. Anna
La Boulay, 37, drowned hersell
in the harbor here yesterday-
just before he telephoned from
New York to say he was enroute
home on leave.
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TOWARD RHINE
of German troons and armor
toward the Rhine in a belated
to withdraw before the points
were reminiscent of the German
80,000 la Pocket
An estimated 80,000 German
soldiers were believed left inside
the closing pocket. Their long
delay in starting the tretreat
threatened to cost them heavily
in the next few days.
Lt. Gen. George S. Patton s .
U. S. third army spearheads al
ready were within 13 miles of
Kaiserlautern, where the main
escape roads center.
The Germans were reported
putting up only sporadic opposi
tion in the pocket. They fought
hardest along the northeastern
shoulder of the gap to keep open
the roads to Mainz and Ludgigs
hafen, Rhine cities.
Pattonites Move Fast
Patton's troops early today
were only 14 miles southwest of
Mainz and about 35 miles north
west of Ludgishafen. They cross
ed the Nahe river, main German
defensive position on the north
ern flank of the Rhine-Palatinate
at several points. At last
reports the Yanks were moving
rapidly south and southeast.
Strong German covering forces
were still manning the Siegfried
line fortifications along tha
southern rim of the Saar against
the advancing seventh army In
large-scale delaying action to
cover the retreat.
Field dispatches said the sev
enth army and French first army
troops moving down the Rhine
valley, scored gains running to
five miles and mora today and
were crowding hard on the heels
of the retreating Nazis,
BY AIR RAIDERS
London, March 10 (U.R)
Strong forces of American and
British bombers dr ipped heavy,
loads of bombs some the new
11-ton super-bombs on widely
scattered parts of Germany to
day. The bombardment hit Ger
many a day after the heaviest
raid of the war on any single
city had wrecked and burned
large sections of the concentrat
ed war industries in and around
Berlin.
More than 1,200 U. S. heavy
bombers and upward of 600
fighters hit several targets to
day. They included a Jet plane
plant at Baumenhelm, 20 miles
north of Augsburg.
The record attack on Berlin
by upwards of 2,000 American
planes yesterday cost the 8th
air force 23 bombers and five
fighters.
A communique reviewing the
Berlin raid revealed that the
U. S. planes scattered 3,000 tons
of bombs through most of the
capital's industries and left them
ablaze or littered with wreck
age.
Neutral correspondents In the
devastated German capital were
loroidden to send out anything:
except the bare official an
nouncement that Berlin had
been bombed.
Stockholm reports, however,
said more Berliners had been
killed or Injured in the 2.000
plane, 3,000-ton raid than in any
previous attack on the city.
Those who fled from their
cellars to avoid asphyxiation by
smoke were set afire themselves
by the burning asphalt of streets
and sidewalks, Atlantic said. A
number of persons jumped into
the Spree river to extinguish
their flaming clothes and
drowned.
In the Schlesischer railway
station, only two miles from the
heart of Berlin, Atlantic said,
thousands of freight cars loaded
with supplies for the eastern
front and food for the defenders
of Berlin were destroyed by
fire.
ROCKET KILLS TWO IN
FORT SILL EXERCISES
Fort Sill, Okla.. March 19
(U.R) Army authorities reported
today that two soldiers were
killed and three others Injured
Saturday when a rocket pro
jectile exploded near .their
truck, which had been stuclc
(luring field exercises.
FOR SECOND DAY